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kostaspaxos at yahoo

Sep 15, 2007, 2:24 AM

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trim start and trailing space chars from string

Hi,
is there something corresponding to the java String.trim() method, ie
trim start and trailing space/tab chars from string?
say convert " asdf " to "asdf"?

Thnx
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tim at tdw

Sep 15, 2007, 2:27 AM

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Re: trim start and trailing space chars from string [In reply to]

On 15/09/2007, Konstantinos Pachopoulos <kostaspaxos [at] yahoo> wrote:
> Hi,
> is there something corresponding to the java String.trim() method, ie
> trim start and trailing space/tab chars from string?
> say convert " asdf " to "asdf"?

>>> ' asdf '.strip()
'asdf'
>>> ' asdf '.rstrip()
' asdf'
>>> ' asdf '.lstrip()
'asdf '
>>>
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sjmachin at lexicon

Sep 15, 2007, 3:33 AM

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Re: trim start and trailing space chars from string [In reply to]

On Sep 15, 7:24 pm, Konstantinos Pachopoulos <kostaspa...@yahoo.gr>
wrote:
> Hi,
> is there something corresponding to the java String.trim() method, ie
> trim start and trailing space/tab chars from string?
> say convert " asdf " to "asdf"?

http://docs.python.org/lib/string-methods.html

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rustompmody at gmail

Sep 15, 2007, 4:02 AM

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Re: trim start and trailing space chars from string [In reply to]

>>> s=" abcdef "
>>> s.strip()
'abcdef'
>>> s.rstrip()
' abcdef'
>>> s.lstrip()
'abcdef '
>>>

On 9/15/07, Konstantinos Pachopoulos <kostaspaxos [at] yahoo> wrote:
> Hi,
> is there something corresponding to the java String.trim() method, ie
> trim start and trailing space/tab chars from string?
> say convert " asdf " to "asdf"?
>
> Thnx
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> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
>
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